Shortening movie length.

Hi guys, I made a movie that is 7:24 long, but my movie ends after 3:29. So now I have almost 4 minutes of black blank space in my movie.
Now this is where it gets interesting. I deleted the extra black blank space in the movie, so when I compressed it, it was gone. So everything should be good now, right? Well, that isn't entirely the case.
On the mini time line thing directly under the preview screen and above the play/full screen play/back to first frame buttons still say that the movie is 7:24 minutes long, but after 3:29 (my intended movie length, which, on the time line is blue) there is a bunch of gray space all the way to 7:24. I do not understand this considering that after I compress my movie, it ends at 3:29.
This is relevant because on the mini time line above the play button and below the preview screen, the movie ends at 46% (which is 3:29) of the total 7:24 that is present on that time line. In my compressed video that I made, after 1:43 (which is 43% of the full 3:29 of the video) the video locks up. The music keeps playing, but the video just freezes on a single frame for the rest of the movie.
I have tried to re compress the video and it does not work. I've closed and re opened the program to no avail. I am thinking that because my movie ends at 46% of the total video (not my intended video) in time line under the preview screen, and the screen freezes at 43% in the compressed video, that they somehow correlate with each other, but I am not completely sure about this.
So if I can somehow delete that extra black, blank video in the time line underneath the preview screen, it will hopefully fix the video freezing in the compressed video (I hope). Any suggestions?
I have also tried to copy and paste all the footage and music to a new, blank working space but it says something about something happening to my audio. It is also important to note that after every time I compress the video, it freezes on the same frame, but the audio continues to play.

Both the video and audio file make for the total duration of a movie.
So if your movie finishes at 3:29:00 and the audio finishes at 7:24:00 the combined movie file finishes at 7:24:00, and vice versa. To cut of the movie file to 3:29:00 you need to make a hard cut in both the audio file and video file in the time line and delete the material that you don't need after that point.
Move your playhead in the timeline to the point (marker=cmdshiftb) where you want the movie to end. Highlight the video timeline and the audio timeline (shift + click video timeline, hold shift and click audio timeline). With both timelines selected hold cmdshiftt and the timelines will both be split at that point. Select all material to the right of the split in the timelines, scroll to the right to make sure there are no accidental clips pasted anywhere to the right of the split marker, do the same deletion of all files in the audio timeline. There should be nothing on the right side split mark. Now Let the movie play beginning to end to check for mistakes, it should stop playing at the split mark at 3:29:00 exactly.
You're ready to continue to the next step of saving the file with a new file name.

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